Your Child’s Motor Development Story is written by an occupational therapist who describes for the everyday parent how BEST to help their kids develop. Book: Your Child’s Motor Development Story: Understanding and Enhancing Development from Birth to Their First Sport Your Child’s Motor Development Story is written by an occupational therapist who describes for the everyday parent how BEST to help their…

In the first study of its kind in the U.S., researchers found that normally developing preschool children with chronic constipation have underlying sensory issues that contribute to their difficulties with toileting behaviors. These children are often picky eaters who might be overly sensitive to food textures, tastes, or odors. They also might have an exaggerated…

“A sensitive tot may be just that — sensitive. But one who shrugs off hugs, say, or freaks when the volume is too loud on the TV may have sensory processing disorder, or SPD. Ditto a child who seems to crave stimuli. Either way, there’s plenty of help to be had.” – WhatToExpect.com CLICK HERE: Top…

If your child rarely shows you that he or she loves you, it can be profoundly distressing. This is the experience of many parents of children with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD), and most fear that it reflects the truth. In fact the truth has generally more to do with the difficulty that young people…

If there’s anything the 32 parent-writers and 15 experts of Easy to Love but Hard to Raise want you to know, it’s this: YOU ARE NOT ALONE We’ve been there. We’ve done that. We’ve navigated the system. Some of us succeeded. Some failed. We’ve been judged by friends, teachers, family, & strangers. We’ve gotten the phone…